Kurt Vonnegut at his wry best. Charts familiar storyline plots to their graphic details here. The most popular story in our civilisation … We love to hear this story, every time it’s retold somebody makes another million dollars. He begins … Continue reading
When I was a student at the IISc, Bangalore the bookstore there used to sell Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy (H2G2) ‘trilogy in four parts’. They came with a special cover design. Looked individually, these covers looked … Continue reading
Random House has released a new set of paperbacks for Franz Kafka’s great works. They have some great cover designs by Peter Mendelsund. Mendelsund employs brilliant colour schemes and a font designed out of Kakfa’s own handwriting. Finnish graphic … Continue reading
Google has published a little animated puzzle in honour of Stanislaw Lem on the 60th anniversary of the publication of his short stories collection The Cyberiad! My own tribute to the master (in Tamil) is here. And you can read … Continue reading
The list is in: Aravind Adiga The White Tiger Gaynor Arnold Girl in a Blue Dress Sebastian Barry The Secret Scripture John Berger From A to X Michelle de Kretser The Lost Dog Amitav Ghosh Sea of Poppies Linda Grant The Clothes on Their … Continue reading
I came across this excellent poem written by Stanislaw Lem today. Come, let us hasten to a higher plane, Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn, Their indices bedecked from one to n, Commingled in an endless Markov chain! … Continue reading